Leap Quotes - Page 19

• Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Feet, Fawns

  Samuel Richardson (1754). “The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a Series of Letters Published from the Originals, by the Editor of Pamela and Clarissa. In Seven Volumes”, p.232

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• There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

  James Dyson

  Persistence, Looks, Ends

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• Evil is simply
  a grammatical error:
  a failure to leap
  the precipice
  between "he"
  and "I.

  Linda Pastan

  Errors, Evil, Empathy

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• The Gospel does not require anything good that man must furnish: not a good heart, not a good disposition, no improvement of his condition, no godliness, no love either of God or men…….. It plants love into his heart and makes him capable of all good works. It demands nothing, but it gives all. Should not this fact make us leap for JOY?

  C. F. W. Walther

  Love, God, Work

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• Dolphins frequently leap above the water surface. One reason for this behaviour could be that, when travelling longer distances, jumping can save the dolphins energy as there is less friction while in the air.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Distance, Jumping, Air

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Friendship, Marriage, Passion

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9049, Delphi Classics

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• The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wall, Fall, Blow

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, song (added 1850)

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• But whatever the consensus on the EMH, I know of no serious academic, professional money manager, trained security analyst, or intelligent individual investor who would disagree with the thrust of EMH: The stock market itself is a demanding taskmaster. It sets a high hurdle that few investors can leap.

  John C. Bogle

  Intelligent, Investing, Serious

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• I think for a lot of people, the financial barrier is the biggest leap (that) you have to take. A lot of people don't want to stick their necks out and take that risk which is totally understandable. Until you are ready to totally bet on yourself and put all of your chips on the table, it doesn't happen.

  Chris Gethard

  Thinking, People, Risk

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• I kind of don't believe in actors directing themselves. Obviously some people have done it well, but I don't see how I could. It's funny that you ask, because I've just been thinking that maybe I'd rather direct The Bell Jar than act in it. It's a huge leap to go from a short to a feature, so I'm tentative - I'm like, Well, that's just so triple-type-A personality of you.

  Julia Stiles

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It just seemed to me so utterly wrong to credit someone's work just for the fact that this someone migrated from one place to another. We all move. We are all leavers and new beginners at some point, and yes, it is a huge leap from war to peace, from one language to another, from Boston, MA to Joplin, MO.

  Sasa Stanisic

  War, Moving, Boston

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

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• In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV movies. The leaps poems make are not unlike the cuts in a film. The miniature and avant-garde prose poets have perhaps the most obvious ties to film, as a prose poem in its shape is not unlike a movie screen.

  Denise Duhamel

  Book, Cutting, Ties

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to anyone, and because I'm a fairly private person, the notion doesn't appeal to me.

  Debra Dean

  Would Be, Biographies, Imagine

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I decided to take a leap of faith and go into business for myself. I'm scared to death!

  Kam Williams

  Leap Of Faith, Scared, Decided

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the leap into senior positions. Everyone jumps to the conclusion that it's motherhood that holds women back, but often the big roadblock is the lack of executive presence.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Senior, Motherhood, Careers

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.

  Kevin Brady

  Talking, Difficult, Budgets

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• There are many things God wants to do on earth and in people's lives, but if someone doesn't leap in and answer the call to pray, it won't happen.

  Stormie Omartian

  People, Answers, Earth

  Stormie Omartian (2013). “Prayer Warrior”, p.67, Harvest House Publishers

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• Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . . .Change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stress that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point. Heat water, and it eventually boils. Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Stress, Two, Point Break

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• What do you conceive God to be like? Some would say to believe at all in a personal God requires a giant leap of faith - but I am convinced that belief in God is a far more reasonable position than atheism. Nature, the personal experience of literally billions of people, and something innate in the heart of man all testify to the existence of God.

  George Sweeting

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• While the ACA's insurance expansions and reforms represent a great leap forward for the U.S., it is also true that when fully implemented by 2018, the U.S. will still have the most inefficient, wasteful, and unfair health insurance system of any advanced nation, even with the ACA reforms.

  John E. McDonough

  Expansion, Reform, Aca

  Source: sponsored.bostonglobe.com

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• When you have a liberal class that no longer functions, when those people who traditionally defend and care about a civil society no longer do so, then you cede power to very frightening, deformed figures, all of which we are watching leap up around the fringes of our political establishment - this lunatic fringe, which has largely taken over the Republican Party.

  Chris Hedges

  Party, Taken, Class

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• When John Lennon left the Beatles and started making music with Yoko Ono, many people scoffed at the idea. How could this talented man with so many hit songs give it all up? Well, we all know it was love, but beyond that, it was a leap of faith to try something new.

  Ashley Bryan

  Song, Men, Ideas

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• You know, you're not aware of it, but you're following the action of the film through the body of the protagonist, you know? You feel what he feels when he jumps, when he leaps, when he wins, when he loses. And I think I just took it for granted that, you know, we can all do that, but it became obvious to me that men don't live through the female characters.

  Meryl Streep

  Character, Winning, Men

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

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• Earl Scruggs wears two finger picks and a thumb pick, and by alternating them, he can play about as fast as he wants. So it's this action. You know, you couldn't move one finger that fast, but all three, it's pretty easy, and it's kind of an incredible leap.

  Earl Scruggs

  Moving, Play, Two

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• I believe the human race is ready to make a quantum leap forward spiritually and morally.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Race, Quantum

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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